Photos and drawings of Legume flowers

[897tgigvib]

How about finding photos and drawings of Bean and legume flower anatomy? These are some of the most complicated flowers as far as pollinating goes!

 

[digitS']

to Hybridize:

1 you would be in there very early with your fingernail scissors

2 clipping thru the filaments to remove the pollen producing anthers.

3 Then, return to the more-mature flower in a day or two

4 with anthers from another flower held in forceps or tweezers to pollinate.

Right?

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

Digit, just disecting a Bean flower, those units take practice! I disected maybe a dozen tomato flowers before figuring the physical coordinations and moves to get the anther cone off in one piece.

Bean flowers. Dang! Those things will take a surgeon's touch, and maybe even a good assistant for more fingers.

I would like to carefully do some crossing of certain varieties. Like, some of those Star and Ojos varieties that are so late producing, cross them with some quicker varieties.

Listening to some of this new music. Kind of beautiful voice, but needs to learn more about singing! Something about found love in a hopeless pla(and leaves out the c sound entirely and consistently!)

 

[digitS']

This is why I will put some tomato plants in containers to try that hybridizing.

Lifting the plant up to a comfortable height, then parking my stool nearby, then resting my elbows on the table . . . maybe I can do what needs to be done without destroying the flower :/. I won't put good money on it, tho'.

It may be time to get one of those table magnifying glasses. I only need to use my bifocals when I'm reading or trying to "hear" what someone is saying across the room. Honestly, I can read the monitor, watch teevee, and even drive better without glasses. This is a result of changing eyesight thru aging. I had no idea that some folks would actually begin finding some balance between near & far-sightedness! I'm not talking about need for light or any improvement in color vision, just perception in the medium distance.

And now, to other infirmities . . . I can use a written demonstration of what a person with hearing loss hears of normal conversation. It showed up on a Department of Health website, want to see? Marshall, we lose consonants because they are all in high tones. Low tones usually stay within our ability to hear but those are the vowels. In one ear, I have nearly normal hearing in the lowest frequency tested. At the highest tones, I am profoundly deaf. That means I.can't.understand.spoken.words.worth.a.dang.

My world is, to quote V, "Ooooooooooooooooooohm!"

Steve

 

[Kassaundra]

scarlett runner beans

purple hyacynth bean

Rattlesnake (?) better of the bean, but the flower is there too

I forget

I have taken more, but these are all that are currently in my uploads (such limited space)

 

[897tgigvib]

Gorgeous, drop dead BEAUTIFUL photography, AS USUAL AND ALWAYS!!! KASSAUNDRA, the best camera here!!!
<<<

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks row no blushing smiley available so this one will have to do.

 

[Kassaundra]

Here are a few more, I had to delete some to fit these in

Oriental yard long beans

Adzuki beans and experiment these were planted from the beans out of my kitchen cabinate.

 

[897tgigvib]

Kassaundra, google pentax 645D

Just imagine if you had a magnificent 40.1 mp camera with a world class lens! Triple exposured for exposure bracketting, and then merged in the editor after contrast and brightness modulations....

Too bad they cost as much as a 3 year old car! 10,000 dollars, but look at the pentax site and some others about these cameras!

Imagining Kassaundra with one of these mid format cameras! You'd be famous!

 

[digitS']

Uh, oh . . .

I thought you were talking about your tinnitus & the music, Marshall!

Here is a modest but gifted smiley for Kassuandra:

And, one for me:

Steve